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Author : Louis Haber
Release : 1991
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 667/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Black Pioneers of Science and Invention by : Louis Haber
Download or read book Black Pioneers of Science and Invention written by Louis Haber. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the lives of fourteen black scientists and inventors who have made significant contributions in the various fields of science and industry.
Author : Louis Haber
Release : 1970
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Download or read book Black Pioneers of Science and Invention written by Louis Haber. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A readable, perceptive account of the lives of fourteen gifted black Americans who have played important roles in this country's scientific and industrial progress. The achievements of Benjamin Banneker, Granville T. Woods, George Washington Carver, and others have made Americans' jobs easier, saved countless lives, and, in many cases, altered the course of history. "All of these men endured hardship . . . but managed to overcome obstacles. . . . Extensive bibliography."--School Library Journal
Author : Robin Walker
Release : 2013-10-16
Genre : Africa
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Book Synopsis Blacks and Science Volume Two by : Robin Walker
Download or read book Blacks and Science Volume Two written by Robin Walker. This book was released on 2013-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blacks and Science Volume Two Did YOU know any of the following facts? o The Bamoun Kingdom, now in today's Cameroon, has 7,000 surviving manuscripts in their own script o Timbuktu astronomers used the cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant and cosecant functions of trigonometry o The Dogon of Mali had an early and wholly indigenous notion of 'big bang' derived from a singularity o A number of iron and copper tools were excavated in Senegal that dated from 2800 BC o The total amount of gold mined in the desert regions of West Africa to the year 1500 was $35 billion at 1998 gold prices o A surviving sixteenth century Timbuktu manuscript has a formula for making toothpaste and adds that regular brushing of your teeth removes bad breath o A 1342 text published in Cairo mentions two royal Malian voyages sailing across the Atlantic involving hundreds of vessels o The Royal Palace of the Ashanti Empire contained a suite of apartments on its upper floor that reminded a visitor to the palace of Wardour Street in Central London o Glass was manufactured at the Yoruba capital of Ile-Ife in the sixth century o According to New Scientist, there are even surviving Timbuktu manuscripts that deal with climatology Blacks and Science Volume Two is largely a synthesis of previously published Kindle e-books or lecture-essays West African Contributions to Science and Technology combined with Intellectual Life and Legacy of Timbuktu. However, new information not present in either e-book has been added on East Africa. This book is a general introduction to the role played by the West and East Africans in the evolution of Mathematics, Astronomy & Physics, Metallurgy, Medicine & Surgery, Boat Building & Navigation, Architecture, and Crafts & Industry. It also discusses the content, importance and implications of the recently rediscovered manuscripts of Timbuktu.
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Release : 2008
Genre : CC.
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Book Rating : 559/5 ( reviews)
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Author : Henry E. Baker
Release : 2020-03-16
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Colored Inventor: A Record of Fifty Years by : Henry E. Baker
Download or read book The Colored Inventor: A Record of Fifty Years written by Henry E. Baker. This book was released on 2020-03-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Colored Inventor: A Record of Fifty Years" by Henry E. Baker Baker was the third African American to enter the United States Naval Academy. He later served as an assistant patent examiner in the United States Patent Office, where he would chronicle the history of African-American inventors. This book is the culmination of that tireless work. It explored the different inventions African-American citizens would contribute throughout his career, many of which went on to be life-changing inventions in the country.
